Trade: Dodgers acquire RHP Jack Flaherty from Tigers
Clayton Kershaw and Tyler Glasnow recently returned from the injured list, but Bobby Miller is at Triple-A and Walker Buehler and Yoshinobu Yamamoto are still on the IL. There are too many question marks for the Dodgers not to make a move for a frontline starting pitcher.
While most teams prefer to trade for controllable starters, the Dodgers may actually prefer a rental like Flaherty. A year from now, Shohei Ohtani, Tony Gonsolin, Dustin May and Emmett Sheehan may all be healthy, in addition to Yamamoto, Glasnow and Gavin Stone. Right now, though, they need someone capable of starting a playoff game. Flaherty, who has a 2.95 ERA over 18 starts this season, would give them that.
If the price for Flaherty is higher than President of Baseball Operations Andrew Friedman hoped for and/or the Dodgers end up with a surplus of starting pitching by the time October rolls around, so be it.
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